EXOD673 (Continued from [[LEV715]] Leviticus 19:18 thyself SPERO 125-6) Justice applies to all. No man qua man is more than any other. The Torah, therefore, rejects double codes of morality--for yourself and for others, for the great and for the humble, for rulers and for the ruled, for individuals and for nations, for private life and for public life. "One law and one ordinance shall be both for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you" (Numbers 15:16). The underprivileged and the defenderless in society are singled out in the Torah for special attention. "Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child…" [this verse]. Sensitive to the fact that justice requires equality and rejects all favoritism, the Torah warns us not to let our desire to help the poor lead us into a situation of reverse discrimination where we do an injustice to others: "Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause" and "thou shall not respect the person of the poor nor harm the person of the great" (Exodus 23:3 and Leviticus 19:15).